... by William Wycherley in The Country Wife (1675) and William Congreve in The Way of the World (1700). humour sixteenth-century England seventeenth-century England comic theory prologue protasis epitasis catastasis catastrophe plot comic...

... Medicine Sixteenth-Century Germany Nuremberg Print Culture Medical Reform Expertise and Authority Hannah Murphy’s book tells the story of how physicians in sixteenth-century Nuremberg achieved what they considered to be their natural place at the top of the medical hierarchy, subordinating...

... a geographical one. By doing so, it also provides insights into Ebussuud’s jurisprudential legacy and the major socio-legal concerns and anxieties in the Ottoman Empire during the sixteenth century. Ebussuud fetva topic-modeling Ottoman sixteenth century computational history digital history...

...R. Allen Shotwell Over time, physicians have often needed to adapt to the changing nature of human disease—the appearance of the Pox in the sixteenth century provided one such occasion; but the changing landscape of disease may also highlight ongoing transformations within the practice of medicine...

... as the institution of the university. anatomy theater, Andreas Vesalius, dissection, Fabricius of Aquapendente, Renaissance, sixteenth-century Padua, university history ...

... religious tolerance France reformation France Seneca Euripides Troy sixteenth-century French tragedy In the first part of this study we saw how early French humanists, poring over their editions of Homer and weighty Homeric commentary, strove to make Homeric epic into a sort of Miroir du...

...This chapter discusses the city of Nantes and its people in the mid-sixteenth century. The streets and quays of Nantes were populated by a rich variety of people. In the mid-century, it was the largest city of the province of Brittany, with a population of about 20,000, and, like all early modern...

...This chapter argues that the sixteenth-century Scottish Reformation was an evangelical movement comprising all the biblicist, crucicentrist, conversionist, and activist characteristics normally associated with the broader evangelicalism that emerged in the 1730s. These characteristics...

..., and of incorporating the peoples and environments of America into the mental world of early modern England in an attempt to persuade English men and women to make the difficult decision to cross the Atlantic in search of a new life. It was in the sixteenth century that the English first grappled with what...

... of Denmark Della Rovere Francesco Maria Martinengo Colleoni Alessandro Romanino Girolamo Brescia sixteenth century marriage frescoes dress women musical instruments Saletta delle Dame Palazzo Salvadego Poised at the balustrade’s edge, eight women sit intently. Their elegant composure...

... culture liberty discourse long sixteenth century twentieth century republican liberty Since the second half of the twentieth century and beyond, the culture of the Western world has developed a remarkable inquiry into the meaning of the word liberty, with its multiple derivations...

...This concluding chapter reflects on the historical foundation on which the modern discourse of liberty and toleration is based. It looks back to “the long sixteenth century,” the period between 1500 and approximately 1650—specifically between the time of Niccolò Machiavelli and John Milton—during...

... why the role of the Jewish converts spread out during the first decades of the sixteenth century, despite having a rather narrow theological-polemical role in medieval debates. This chapter shows that these Jewish converts soon arrived at the head of public consciousness, starting...

...This chapter concludes that the story of the formation of Sephardic Diaspora and the long and difficult resettlement of Iberian Jewry in the lands of the sixteenth-century Mediterranean offers valuable insights into the essential nature of Jewish communal organization and the self-fashioning...

...The book Love and Death in Renaissance Italy presents short stories that try to evoke the sixteenth-century Italian play of life. As historian, the author is especially drawn to moments where the fields of play meet in dramatic, crazy, ironic ways. Choice, and that semifreedom-amid...

...This chapter describes the cultural techniques of interrogation, registration, and licensing on the boundary between land and sea, that produced in sixteenth century Spain the legal passenger to “The Indies” in contrast to the illegal passenger, the vagabond, the parasite. The invention...

... shows that during this period, demand itself, with its massed acquisitive energies, transformed the English economy. Over the long sixteenth century, consumption burgeoned, though justifications for it lagged behind. People were in a curious predicament: they practiced consumption on a mass scale...

... Caste system West African Gardens Urbanization Women Lucas family Work culture Religion Resistance African slaves sixteenth century nineteenth century Anglo-American colonies trade migration commercial goods For every European who crossed the Atlantic from the sixteenth to the early...

...This chapter describes how criticism of the “heavy” and “enormous” person changed in the sixteenth century. Indolence displeased; the useless was disquieting; and laziness became “the plague of human understanding.” At a time of intense social segregation and the nobility’s contempt for manual...